Journal: La Dolce Vita, Slovenia, O and Ka

— LA DOLCE VITA, 16 July 2006 — We are in Rimini in northern Italy. We have a day off tomorrow due to too few Slovenians being interested enough to pay a week’s salary to see me perform for seventy-five minutes. My feelings aren’t hurt. Personally, I’m unaffected by this Balkan dis. But, I must […]

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Journal: Rome, English, and Neil Young

— ROMAN HOLIDAY, 29 February 2004 — (I thought of that. Except it’s no holiday and I’m not with Cary Grant…..Far from it. – CK.) Pronto da Italia. We’ve been here so long that I’m finding it difficult not to think in Italian! Bear with Us. (He spoke Italian on stage in Rome. At least […]

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Journal: Friends, Old Man, and Vulgarity

— THE SOUND OF MUSIC, 15 February 2004 — (I thought of that – CK. That’s so my most favorite movie of all time. Edelweiss makes me cry every time. One time when I saw it, it didn’t make me cry. I don’t know why. Ooops….He’s back from the bar. More about me later.) As […]

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Journal: WWI, the Queen, and Cathy

— WORLD WAR I REVISITED, 4 February 2004 — Here I am in Europe. I’ve done two shows in Belgium. I think they went pretty well. I talk less than I do at home but they seem to understand everything I say; they just didn’t think some of it was that funny. I think some […]

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